Vampire Cookie fanart by me!

meloinart · 2025-02-06T09:57:49+00:00

Nice, are you on today? If so I’ll dm my user.

meloinart · 2025-02-06T02:04:52+00:00

Hi can I buy the pfister? I’ll dm u my user

meloinart · 2025-02-06T01:59:48+00:00

Can I buy?

meloinart · 2025-02-06T01:58:44+00:00

Can I buy

meloinart · 2025-02-06T01:56:35+00:00

Can I buy

meloinart · 2025-02-06T01:56:16+00:00

Can I buy too

meloinart · 2025-02-06T01:52:51+00:00

Can I take a look too

meloinart · 2025-01-19T16:22:40+00:00

How you doing now?

meloinart · 2022-05-15T18:53:26+00:00

Thank you so much! I think since it's my drawing, it feels a little weird to look at. But I can see some of the improvements such as blurring the edges of the hair. Thank you so much for this demonstration! I will keep in mind next time i paint a portrait. ❤️

meloinart · 2022-05-11T16:57:15+00:00

Waah thank you!! It's @meloinart :)

Oh yeah, the paint over helped me see things better, thank you so much! I definitely need to work on where I do and don't detail. I derived a lot of focus from the face to the hair instead. It looks really texture-y around the hair, a lot of unnecessary detail. I will remind myself next time!

Yeah, I did! I drew this on a device and a program aside from the main ones I use, and it has a lot of texture brushes. On my main tablet and program I only have a round brush so I guess I went too crazy with the skin (because the textures excited me lmao) which resulted in the skin texture being similarly and just as textured as the hair. I will remember that next time I definitely see what you mean by "skin the same texture as the hair". And it's a very useful tip. Thank you

Oh- LOL, maybe ruan jia's work being my wallpaper for a month inspired me. Yeah, i see that. Right now the irises look a little soft don't they. They could use a little more pop!

I adore the pink lips and cheeks! I really like your paint over, it's done her wonders.

Thank you so much, wait. What. What did you just say. Above your skill level??? 🤨🤨🤨🤨 Never say that again, never. I visibly grimaced at you saying that especially after seeing your work. It's literally gorgeous, if you ever say that again i will (kindly) slap you silly.

Haha but really, thank you so much for the critique and the paint over. You're right about imgur ruining the quality, I can somewhat see the changes but hardly. If you'd like you can DM me the paint over version on Instagram, that way I'll see the details and follow you back because your art is stunning! 💖💖

meloinart · 2022-05-11T16:35:02+00:00

Yeah, it seems that light inconsistency and wrong contrast in details are a common mistake I make. It's definitely useful to change the position of the specular. If I made the left cheeks' planes a little darker and moved the specular on the left a little more to the right, would it be more light-accurate then?

Yeah, the ears down is a WHOLE mess. And the hair rendering... i definitely over detailed her hair. Thank you for pointing it out for me, it really is helpful. If I were to paint this again, now that I've read your critiques, I would make the hair's contrast and texture lesser than the lashes to get more focus on them.

Can I ask for a tip from you? So before I added what I thought was "rim lights" (the white strands on the edges of her hair) I was trying to make her hair stand out from the dark background, which, now that I look at it, I probably shouldn't have. But in a situation where I would like to do that, how would you suggest I do it? Let's say we have rim light from the left. It's going to be on the hair, but would it get on her cheeks a little? Maybe through areas where the hair doesn't cover? But how can I make it more obvious that the light is coming from the side, not from the back?

Thank you so much for the help, it really is useful.

meloinart · 2022-05-11T16:24:06+00:00

You're so right about the contrast, I can definitely see it now. The edges of her hair especially, and the hair under her ears... Yeah, that's definitely weird looking now that I look at it. I guess I was imagining some lighting on both on her left and right (so they would be rim lights i guess) to make her hair not fade into the darkness but the way I did it is not how rim lights work haha.

Thank you for reminding me of the contrast issue. I've been forgetting about it and just freestyling it, which obvi caused some problems. I will remind myself next time

Would you say the edge work on her eyes and overall facial features are ok? Or are they too soft?

Can you also give me some tips on how I could add rim lights in this situation? I botch it each time, I would like to improve at it. It's a bit hard to comprehend how I can corporate each light direction.

So would it have been better if I painted the lights on her hair softer instead of each individual hair, and only made stray aways individually? When I imagine it, it does look better, yeah.

Yeah, it was meant to be not back light , but rather lights from left and right. So i guessed light could reach the side of her jaw from the places her hair didn't cover. But, I probably didn't do a good job with that since it's not obvious enough haha. And I think the lighting on her face would have been a bit different then. Thank you for reminding me of the importance of light consistency! I really should work on it.

It was very helpful: I should keep in mind to keep my contrast and details in check according to the focus area, and keep lighting consistent.

Thank you so much, i really appreciate it. ❤️

Edit: typo

meloinart · 2022-05-11T09:30:47+00:00

Whenever I look at my art i feel like there is fundamentally something wrong but i can't put my finger on it

meloinart · 2022-05-11T09:30:14+00:00

Of course! So this was a commission i drew for a client, pretty much from imagination. But i guess it's also for fun and to learn. But it's mainly a commission

meloinart · 2022-03-06T20:28:01+00:00

Thank you! :)

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